Arabian Bride
1924
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
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Details

  • Artist Name: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
  • Title: Arabian Bride
  • Date: 1924
  • Medium: Watercolor and oil on wove papers, mounted on wove papers, mounted on thin cardboard
  • Dimensions: comp: 13-1/4 x 6-1/2 in. (33.7 x 16.5 cm); mount: 14-1/8 x 6-7/8 in. (35.9 x 17.5 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.024
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Museum

Object Information

The artist, consigned in 1933 to;
Galka Scheyer, who purchased from Lily Klee in 1942;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

The Journey to Tunisia: Klee, Macke, Moilliet

  • Zentrum Paul Klee, 2014-03-14 to 2014-06-22

Paul Klee: Paintings and Watercolors from the Bauhaus Years 1921-1931

  • Des Moines Art Center, 1973-09-18 to 1973-10-28

Recent Pictures by Paul Klee

  • Los Angeles, Putzel Gallery, 1937-11-15 to 1937-12

Paul Klee Memorial Exhibition [organized by MOMA]

  • Los Angeles, Stendahl Art Galleries, 1941-05-08 to 1941-05-18

Paul Klee

  • Los Angeles, Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art (Lorser Feitelson), 1935-07-31 to 1935-08

Klee exhibition

  • Oakland Art Gallery, 1935-09-01 to 1935-09-29

Paintings and Prints by Paul Klee

  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1937-01-12 to 1937-02-07

Paul Klee 1879-1940: A Restrospective Exhibition [organized by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Pasadena Art Museum]

  • Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, 1967-02-21 to 1967-02-04
  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1967-04-13 to 1967-05-14
  • Columbus Museum of Art, 1967-05-25 to 1967-06-25
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967-07-05 to 1967-08-13
  • Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1967-09-01 to 1967-09-30
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967-10-24 to 1967-11-19
  • St. Louis, Washington University, Gallery of Art, 1967-12-03 to 1968-01-05
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968-01-15 to 1968-02-15

Paul Klee Memorial Exhibition [organized by MOMA]

  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1941-04-14 to 1941-05-05

30 Years of Painting, Water Colors, Drawings and Lithographs by Paul Klee

  • Modern Institute of Art (Beverly Hills, California), 1948-09-03 to 1948-10-06

Paul Klee

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1987-07-23 to 1988-05-15

Klee, Kandinsky, Jawlensky: Works from the Bauhaus Period

  • School of Art Gallery, The Ohio State University, 1966-11-11 to 1966-11-30

Paul Klee: An Exhibition from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection of the Pasadena Art Museum

  • University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, 1962-05-03 to 1962-05-27

Paul Klee

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1986-06-05 to 1987-06-28

50 years bauhaus

  • Stuttgart, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, 1968-05-05 to 1968-07-28
  • Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), 1968-09-19 to 1968-10-27
  • Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1968-11-30 to 1969-01-01
  • Paris, Musee National d'Art Moderne, 1969-04-01 to 1969-06-22
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, 1969-08-25 to 1969-09-26
  • Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1969-12-05 to 1970-02-01
  • Pasadena Art Museum, 1970-03-16 to 1970-04-26
  • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1970 to 1971
  • Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, 1971 to 1971

Selections from Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee. The Blue Four Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Seattle Art Museum, 1956-10-10 to 1956-11-04
  • Portland, Portland Art Museum, 1956-11-08 to 1956-11-30
  • , 1957-01-01 to 1957-01-31
  • Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1957-03-02 to 1957-04-01
  • Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 1957-11-15 to 1957-12-15
  • San Francisco Museum of Art, 1958-01-14 to 1958-02-23
  • Vancouver Art Gallery, 1956-07 to 1956-08-31

The Art of Paul Klee

  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1960-04-12 to 1960-05-08

Paul Klee: Fifty Paintings, Drawings and Prints from the Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1959-10-24 to 1959-12-06
  • Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, University Gallery, 1960-01-04 to 1960-02-08
  • Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1960-03 to 1960-04

The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1

  • La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14

Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31

My Four Kings: Galka Scheyer and the Blue Four

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2002-12-13 to 2003-04-14

The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum

  • Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
  • Paul Klee, p. 25
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 276 pp. 108, 117
  • Kersten, Wolfgang, Paul Klee: "Zerstörung der Konstruction zuliebe?", 1987, p. 154
  • Franciscono, Marcel, Paul Klee: Reisen in den Süden. Reisefieber praecisiert, 1997, pp. 54, 61
  • Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 4, 1923-1926, 2001, no. 3523 p. 229
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 333 pp. 316-317
  • Gockel, Bettina, Kunstler in System der Wissenschafter 1880-1930, 2010, Fig. XXI
  • Michael Baumgartner, Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Erich Franz / Ursula Heiderich, Christine Hopfengart, Anna Schafroth, Paul Klee. August Macke. Louis Moilliet. The Trip to Tunisia. 1914, 2014, Fig. 77 p.186

Additional Artwork by Artist

Absorption Paul Klee 1919
First Drawing for "Specter of a Genius" Paul Klee 1922
Galloping Horses Paul Klee 1912

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